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Resources like ontologies are used in a number of applications, including natural language processing, information retrieval(especially from the Internet). Different methods have been proposed to build such resources. This paper proposes a new method to extract information from the Web to build a taxonomy of terms and Web resources for a given domain. Firstly, a (CHIR) method is used to identify candidat terms. Then a similarity (SIM) measure is introduced to select relevant concepts to build the ontology. Our new algorithm, called (CHIRSIM), is easy to implement and can be efficiently integrated into an information retrieval system to help improve the retrieval performance. Experimental results show that the proposed approach can effectively and efficiently construct a cancer domain ontology from unstructured text documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Crossword puzzles are used everyday by millions of people for entertainment, but have applications also in educational and rehabilitation contexts. Unfortunately, the generation of ad-hoc puzzles, especially on specific subjects, typically requires a great deal of human expert work. This paper presents the architecture of WebCrow-generation, a system that is able to generate crosswords with no human intervention, including clue generation and crossword compilation. In particular, the proposed system crawls information sources on the Web, extracts definitions from the downloaded pages using state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques and, finally, compiles the crossword schema with the extracted definitions by constraint satisfaction programming. The system has been tested on the creation of Italian crosswords, but the extensive use of machine learning makes the system easily portable to other languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents an Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) approach to modeling, reasoning and a database query based approach to processing and solving addition-subtraction (Add-Sub) type arithmetic Mathematical Word Problems (MWP) of elementary school level. The system identifies and extracts the key entities in a word problem like owners, items and their attributes and quantities, verbs, from all the input sentences, using a rule based Information Extraction (IE) approach based on Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) technique. These information are then stored in predefined templates which are further modeled to represent an MWP in the object-oriented paradigm and processed using query based approach to generate the answer. These kind of applications are based on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and can be used as intelligent dynamic mathematical tutoring tools as part of E-Learning systems, Learning Management Systems, on-line education, etc. The proposed object oriented mathematical word problem solver can solve arithmetic MWPs involving only addition-subtraction operations and it has produced an accuracy of 94.35% on a subset of the AI2 arithmetic questions dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]